Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Saadi.” July 1864. Published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1864, this essay reflects Emerson’s long engagement with Persian literature and the moral philosophy of Saadi of Shiraz. Written during the Civil War, the essay situates Persian ethical reflection within Emerson’s broader transcendentalist inquiry, asserting cross-cultural continuities in.....

Archive of Prohibition, temperance movement and alcohol regulation ephemera chronicling the political organizing, religious campaigns, and moral debates over alcohol consumption in the United States from the 1890s through the 1940s. Produced by temperance organizations, political advocates, physicians, government bodies, and reformers, the materials trace the public discourse surrounding alcohol.....

[Ralph Waldo Emerson][Transcendentalism] Worth, J. Estes. Unpublished biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, circa 1950s, a mid-twentieth-century scholarly interpretation of Emerson grounded primarily in close reading of his journals and early intellectual development. Produced by a Boston University pharmacology professor. The manuscript concentrates on Emerson’s Unitarian and Transcendentalist networks, his education.....

King, Martin Luther Jr. Speeches by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the War in Vietnam, published 1968, presents a compilation of public addresses delivered during the final year of King’s life in which he articulated his opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. King had.....

Ford Lima Engine Plant photo archive documenting one Ford's Ohio engine factory from steel-frame construction through twenty years of production and UAW strike activity. Ford opened the Lima plant in 1957 on farmland north of Lima, Ohio, producing six-cylinder engines for its postwar lineup and reaching its five millionth six-cylinder.....

Ireland, Alexander. In Memoriam. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Recollections of His Visits to England, 1882, presents a contemporary account of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s engagements with British literary culture, written by a close associate who facilitated his lecture tours and maintained long-term correspondence with him. Compiled immediately following Emerson’s death, the work.....

American Colonization Society agent Ebenezer Burgess (1790-1870) was a clergyman and prominent citizen of Dedham, Massachusetts. In 1817, Burgess traveled to Africa on behalf of the American Colonization Society and assisted in founding the colony of Liberia. The American Colonization Society sought to resettle emancipated slaves and freeborn Black Americans.....

Eulogy for Ralph Waldo Emerson. Written by C. A. Bartol. "Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Discourse in West Church". Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1882. Octavo. Original blue printed wrappers. 20 pages. "How shall I present Ralph Waldo Emerson...?" "What, as his main characteristic, this man stood for was unity in.....

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. "We Love the Venerable House" in "A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins, over the Second Congregational Church in Boston, December 4, 1833". Boston: James W. Burditt, 1833. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pages. Marks the second ever appearance of Ralph Waldo Emerson's early hymn.....

[Religion] [Children's Literature] Rev. Edmund S. Janes, D.D. Miniature Bible. With Engravings, Abridged and Collated. Philadelphia: Published at No. 2 Taylor's Alley by J. Harmstead and printed by S. Douglas Wyeth, circa 1840. Approximately 2" x 2.5" inches. Original embossed brown cloth covers. 203 pages. 18 engravings, including frontispiece, depicting.....

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. American Transcendentalist Author, Poet & Philosopher (1803-1822). Original carte-de-viste photograph portrait of Emerson. In very good condition. His writings reflected what Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence," with its focus on the individual rather than the pressures of society.

[African-American Photography] A silver gelatin photograph of an African-American baptism held on Charlotte, North Carolina farmland. Dated July 3, 1921. Measuring at 3" x 4.5". A multitude of African-American families congregate beside a lake on a lush farm, witnessing a baptism. African-American baptisms in the South were typically held in.....

A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. James Cabot. The Riverside Press: Cambridge, 1887. First edition. Volumes I and II. Original marbled boards with half calf. Gilt title on spine. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. 382 pages and 303 pages respectively. First volume with black and white portrait of Emerson inside front.....